Politicians in the North are considering making developers contribute to the provision of new social housing, an Assembly committee was told today.

The organisation handling a controversial fund for regenerating loyalist neighbourhoods in the North has been told it will be terminated, it emerged today.

The British government paid £170,000 (€250,000) today to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic.

The North’s five main parties tonight joined forces to campaign against fuel poverty, which affects one third of households in the province.

A man who once quit the Northern Ireland Tourist Board will help front a new Government bid to transform Derry, it emerged tonight.

A new £730,000 (€1.1m) Enterprise Centre developed by a local community group was officially opened in Derry today.

Belfast was today on course to get two new multi-million pound city centre retail developments.